Archive for April, 2003

29th Apr 2003

You’re in Control: Fun With Number One

fun with peeMark points this out. From MIT to a bar near you.

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29th Apr 2003

Spindrift

Congratulations to my old college roommate John Webb for launching his new blog Spindrift, focusing on his passion for sailing and other important matters in life. I’d like to consider this a Bruner Blog child, as I was the one who first introduced John to Blogger last summer or so in the context of our college reunion site MTRastas.com. Then, of course, his name is Webb and he’s been a web developer for several years, appropriately enough, so it was only a matter of time.

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29th Apr 2003

Seemed Funny at the Time

This is so wrong and juvinile, and God help me if any clients see this, but I was bored. Language learners take note:

Bearded clam, Cooter, The “C” word, Hair pie, Hole, Hootch, Kootchie (pot), Love grotto, Merkin, Money maker, Muff, Padina, Pink, Poontang, Pudenda, Puffy, Pussy, Quiff, Quim, Slit, Snatch, Snizz, Squeezebox, Taco, Trim, Tuna, Twat, Wasp’s nest, Winkie.

Step-brohiem adds: Honey Pot, Thicket, Trent Lott (He’s a Twat), Good Listener, Fish, The Lingua Franca Of Barnard College, Gabby Hayes, Gorilla Salad, Mudflaps, Whiskey Down, Poppin Fresh, Conflict Mediator, Dumb Things I Gotta Do.

The obvious counterpart may soon follow, depending on how much hate mail I get from this one. This would be an example of the downside of self-publishing.

UPDATE:
Mark adds: Cake, Box, Fanny (UK), Beaver, Oven, Lady Jane, Ginie and Mouse.

Diana adds, with giddy chagrin, two more from her childhood: Dink and Private Pot.


29th Apr 2003

My Birthday’s Coming Up

great swag from WhiteHouse.orgJune 11. All I really want is swag from WhiteHouse.org.

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28th Apr 2003

Hungarians and Other Top Suicides

Matt Welch notes that, contrary to popular belief, Hungarians are not the world’s best suicide makers, although they’re in the top 10.

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28th Apr 2003

Tax Cunts Not the Answer

Tom Browkaw made a booboo. (via Gawker)

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28th Apr 2003

Southwest Pilots Fly Naked

I love how weird reality is. Letterman said their excuse was that they were drunk. I can’t wait to fly Hooters Air.

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27th Apr 2003

Reality TV War, Reality TV Peace

Fox's new reality show, Appointed by America, to determine who will rule Iraq, from The OnionThe Onion reports: “Fox executives Monday unveiled their latest reality-TV venture, Appointed By America, a new series in which contestants vie for the top spot in Iraq’s post-war government.”

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26th Apr 2003

Where Is Salam?

It’s now been over a month since Baghdad blogger Salam Pax last posted, since the bombing of the city intensified and the international media outed him. Anyone have the latest rumor on his well-being?


23rd Apr 2003

NYC Wind Power

From the press release:

Setting an example as an environmentally friendly workplace to mark Earth Day 2003, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it will switch to non-polluting wind power for its offices in lower Manhattan.

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23rd Apr 2003

Topless in NY

Cool. Apparently, it’s legal for women to go topless in NY. Let’s hope this is the start of a new trend.

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22nd Apr 2003

You Know The World’s Gone Crazy, Revised Edition

I already pointed this out a few weeks ago, when it was first doing the rounds via email, but I just got a new, improved version, so I figured I’d repost it (the new pay-off at the end is worth it):

You know the world is going crazy when
the best rapper is a white guy,
the best golfer is a black guy
the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese
the Swiss hold the America’s Cup
France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance
Germany doesn’t want to go to war,
and the three most powerful men in America are named ‘Bush’, ‘Dick, and ‘Colon.’

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22nd Apr 2003

Spare Me the 3-1-1

I realize I’m not exactly a top source of generating hipster or ghetto youth slang in our language, but none the less, I’d like to humbly propose “3-1-1″ entering the vernacular as petty complaining or non-essential issues.

This slang would be only natural. A decade or more ago, cool people brought us “4-1-1″ as slang for “the skinny,” “the low down” or “the info.” (The explanation, for you foreigners and slow-witted Americans, is dialing 4-1-1 on the phone gets you directory information.) In his superbly funky song from last year Business, Eminem pronounces “Hip hop is in a state of 9-1-1.” (Nine-one-one, the emergency number, of course, takes on even stranger new connotations as slang in this post-9/11 world.)

Now, New York City recently introduced a new directory service at 3-1-1, which the city’s web site describes as “Citizen Services Center: The Public now has one easy to remember number to access New York City’s non-emergency Government Services.” Basically, it’s where you call to complain about things like pot-holes.

NY was not the first city to do this; it is simply one of the latest to addopt it based on the provisions for use of 3-1-1 as a non-emergency local government services number set forth by the Federal Communications Commission in 1996.

Slang examples:

  • “All she ever goes on about is 3-1-1.”
  • “I’m in the middle of a deadline meltdown, and want me to drop everything for your 3-1-1?!”
  • “Here comes Mr. Concerned Neighbor.”


21st Apr 2003

Iraqi Disinformation Minister Resurfaces

There are no bugs in our software!Via Mark

Mark also points out the Information Minister is renting out his service broadly for PR purposes at TheInformationMinister.com.

And, in case you haven’t already seen it, there is also the original parody site, WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com.

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16th Apr 2003

Whoop! Whoop!…Thump!

That’s what I just heard out my window as a cop car rushing somewhere apparently rear-ended another car at 125th & Broadway. Whoops. The EMT just showed up. From what I can see with my handy binoculars, the driver and passenger in the car that was hit appear relatively okay, as they’re sitting upright and not bleeding, as far as I can see, but they probably smell a good whiplash lawsuit.

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